Born in Dublin, Luke the Laker grew up on Lower Baggot Street, just down the way from Catherine McAuley’s first House of Mercy. Luke bleeds green and blue and is ready to cheer on our student-athletes and do all he can in support of Mercyhurst pride.

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Located in Erie, Pennsylvania, on a hill overlooking Lake Erie, our 75-acre Main Campus is known as one of the most beautiful in the region. Elements of English Gothic architecture are carried throughout our Old Main, academic buildings and student residence halls.

MESOZOIC

The Mesozoic consists of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and is best known as the age of the dinosaurs. While the first dinosaurs appeared all over the world during the Upper Triassic, some of the best known are from the Ghost Ranch in Arizona. By the Jurassic period, dinosaurs began to diversify in ways never seen before. Some became massive and weighed up to 100 tons, some evolved unusual defensive structures like spiny plates and tail clubs, and some became the most fearsome predators to have ever walked the earth. Birds quickly evolved from dinosaurs and first appeared in the Late Jurassic in Germany. They are the only “dinosaurs” to survive the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. It is important to note that while the dinosaurs ruled the Mesozoic, another important group was quietly evolving with the dinosaurs: mammals. The first mammals were also found in the Upper Triassic and remained a fairly small group until the extinction of the dinosaurs.